Catering Assistant - Bank Staff, Platters Farm Lodge
About the Role
Would you like to join our busy and friendly catering team? Are you passionate about making tasty food and delivering the best catering service to our residents and service users?
As a Catering Assistant (bank staff) at our Platters Farm Lodge home in Rainham, Gillingham, you will play an important role in assisting with the day to day running of the kitchen by supporting the team with food preparation whilst maintaining a clean working environment at all times.
So if you are looking for a flexible employment option, don’t join an agency – come and see what Strode Park Foundation has to offer, we’d love to hear from you!
Joining our bank team of Catering Assistants at Platters Farm Lodge in Rainham, Gillingham we can offer the following:
- Flexible working
- You pick the shifts you want to do – days, nights or weekends
- You’ll get comprehensive support from day one
- There’ll be training and development opportunities to develop your skills
Job Opportunity
As a Catering Assistant you will:
- Work with the cooks to ensure that all service users receive the most appropriate food and drink, and that their choices are safely met.
- Carry out basic cooking tasks, when required to support the cook, or step up in the absence of the cook.
- Load and operate the dishwasher and wash up by hand, when necessary.
- Accept deliveries of goods and maintain good stock rotation.
- Ensure that all tableware, serving dishes and cooking utensils are cleaned in a timely manner.
Platters Farm Lodge offers short breaks, respite, rehabilitation, and long-stay facility for adults in Rainham, Medway. Individuals can live at Platters Farm Lodge on a long-term basis. The service also provides people with dementia related care and support. For some people, the fun and nurturing environment of Platters Farm Lodge is their permanent home. The service is vibrant, socially warm, and inviting for the individual and their family and friends. For further information, go to: Platters Farm Lodge (strodepark.org.uk)
Platters Farm Lodge provides care on a 24-hour basis, 7 days a week including weekends and bank holidays. This means we value reliable and flexible staff. We will consider all requests for flexible working and are proud to be a 'Flex from First' employer. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need.
Essential Skills
Our ideal Catering Assistant will:
- Have a willingness to learn and a desire to train as a Catering Assistant.
- Possess good communication skills.
- Have a basic education including English and maths.
- Have an interest in working in adult care services.
- Be trustworthy and reliable.
Although not essential, a food hygiene qualification and/or previous kitchen experience not necessarily gained through employment would be an advantage.
Creating an Inclusive Environment
Strode Park Foundation (“Strode Park”) is fully committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce and the elimination of unlawful and unfair discrimination. Strode Park values the differences that a diverse workforce brings to our organisation.
Our aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our service users, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.
Strode Park will not discriminate because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (which includes colour, nationality and ethnic or national origins), religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. It will not discriminate because of any other irrelevant factor and will build a culture that values meritocracy, openness, fairness and transparency.
